ISBN: 978-92-9234-439-9
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Cite as: OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in partnership with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights and the Helen Bamber Foundation, Trafficking in Human
Beings Amounting to Torture and other Forms of Ill-treatment, Occasional Paper Series no. 5 (June 2013).
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a pan-European security body whose 57 participating
States span the geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok. Recognized as a regional arrangement under
Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter, the OSCE is a primary instrument for early warning, conflict prevention, crisis
management and post-conflict rehabilitation in its area. Its approach to security is unique in being both comprehensive
and co-operative: comprehensive in that it deals with three dimensions of security - the human, the politico-military
and the economic/environmental. It therefore addresses a wide range of security-related concerns, including human rights,
arms control, confidence- and security-building measures, national minorities, democratization, policing strategies,
counter-terrorism and economic and environmental activities.
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